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With the ribbon cut , the new command

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post is officially open sort of because

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once we do go full operational , that

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access is going to be severely

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restricted office . Command post is the

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only nuclear command control node with

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AC . And because of that , visitors are

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usually not allowed , we do have

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visitors for whatever reason that we

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have to shut everything down . Then

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it's kind of like everything is on

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pause . So they don't actually see what

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our controllers do for alert force ,

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for alert force and how they usually

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operate . So that's why we wanted to do

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the opening . Now , before everything

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is fully operational , the 2019 flood

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destroyed the command post . So they've

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been operating out of a 300 square foot

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room . And we have also another

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location that's in the basement of the

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language learning center across base .

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You've never been there . That's

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probably OK , not much to look at or as

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some of the operators call it , it's

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like literally a dungeon underground .

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And what do they think of the new

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facility ? It's amazing just seeing all ,

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all the space that we have is certainly

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a big one because , you know , the room

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that we have over in this building is I

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think almost literally like a some kind

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of closet of some kind . Most command

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posts don't have windows due to the

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classified nature of what they do is

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inbound today at 09 local . But because

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of the special coating on these windows ,

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they get a room with a view . It's

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pretty rare for a command post to have

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windows to see the outside . So it will

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be nice to have the sunlight and we're

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hoping that it's going to enhance your

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morale , right ? And the quality of

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life , I don't know what to say , other

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than I'm pretty excited to have kind of

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a place of our own finally , as opposed

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to just wherever , you know , we get

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put and with the opening of this room

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sometime in June , it will bring off at

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Air Force Base and the 55th Wing one

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step closer to business as usual

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reporting from the command post . I'm

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JB Artley for the 55th Wing Public

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Affairs where the sun never sets on the

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fight in 55th .